Applications are open for the US-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Tomorrow’s Leaders Graduate (TLG) Program. Tomorrow’s Leaders Graduate (TLG) program is a MEPI initiative aiming at offering students from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) a unique opportunity to pursue higher education and earn a master’s degree through a leading American university with U.S. accreditation in the MENA region. TLG equips graduate students with the professional experience needed to advance knowledge and contribute to the achievement of socially relevant outcomes through research that furthers the professionalization of emerging leaders while supporting and increasing scholars’ knowledge in gender issues in specific in the various fields of study.

Graduate Students work closely with leading faculty in their field on research agendas crafted in line with the MEPI-TLG goals. Starting as graduate research assistants while taking their graduate courses, students gain solid research skills that prepare them to conceptualize and conduct their own full-fledged research.

Benefits and Funding

The US-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Tomorrow’s Leaders Graduate (TLG) Program covers the following things

• Full coverage of all applicable charges for enrollment, tuition and fees.
• Medical insurance coverage.
• A monthly living allowance.
• Student housing.
• One laptop for the duration of the program.
• A yearly book allowance.
• Two round-trip tickets from and to the home country, where applicable.
• Exposure to and engagement in different community development projects and/or internships in a host country, and/or their home countries to learn about different forms of intervention and apply such learning back in their respective countries.
• Academic advising, mentoring services, and learning services.
• Professional training on leadership and gender.

Eligibility

• Commitment to complete your Master’s degree within two years.
• Commitment to pursue hands-on public policy research and work as part of your Master’s program.
• Demonstrate academic excellence.
• A citizen of Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Iraq, Syria (residing outside of Syria) Tunisia, or Yemen.
• Demonstrate financial need status per MEPI and host university Financial Aid policies.
• Applicants should be underrepresented or economically deserving students and should submit the relevant Financial Aid application.
• American citizens or U.S. Legal Permanent Residents are not eligible to apply.

AUB: www.aub.edu.lb/MEPI-TLG

LAU: https://mepitl.lau.edu.lb/programs/graduate/